Life is a panacea
—on the other side of fear
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Life is a panacea
—on the other side of fear
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
If one person remembers …
a legacy yet
If one person remembers
old feelings reset
If one person remembers
the words to reform
If one person remembers
—tomorrow reborn
(The New Room: July, 2023)
Smiling the same smile
Making the same mistakes
Walking the same path
Singing the same songs
Dreaming the same dreams
Loving the same girl
Breathing the same air
Righting the same wrongs
Signing the last truce
Reaching the last fork
Holding the last hand
Casting the last line
Waltzing the last waltz
Humming the last tune
Paying the last bill
—rhyming the last rhyme
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Returning
to a sleep
reality abandons
You become
what you dream
—so forever sleep well
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Never
let reality
kill a good fantasy
Never
let the moment
be captured in time
Never
let decision
trump a new instinct
Never
say never
—forever sublime
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Depravity’s eye
is looking back
its eyelid heavy
its pigment black
A twisted image
as yet profane
A sinner’s focus
of sharpened pain
Depravity’s eye
will never blink
With tears of sorrow
the devil’s ink
Forever watching
the future past
Its vision poisoned
—by judgment cast
(The New Room: July, 2023)
Last night
as the sun went down
I heard the highway call
Distant echoes
soul astir
the leaves not quite yet fall
Last night
that voice cried out again
from places far away
And like before
my feet unsure
—of what my heart will say
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
The blackest hole
of poetic intent
Light spinning inward
no chance of escape
Eluding the eyes
collapsing the meaning
Time in dilation
direction opposed
Energy waning
one word is emitted
Superpositioned
—the last dying star
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Writing a torrent
hoping for one
Words are endemic
tide zero-sum
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
The poetry of mathematics
—modernity’s pox
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)